FORMER Booker Prize nominee Linda Grant is the latest major author to be signed up to take part in the Daily Post’s online literary festival.
The Liverpool-born writer, who was a pupil at Belvedere School, in Princes Park, will be answering readers’ questions in a live interview hosted by the newspaper’s website later this month.
The child of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants, Grant, 59, was short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for The Clothes on Their Backs, which won a South Bank Show literature award.
Her second novel, When I Lived in Modern Times, won the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Grant, whose work has been translated into 13 foreign languages, has also been nominated for awards for her work as a feature writer and columnist for the Guardian.
Award-winning screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce and internationally renowned horror writer Ramsey Campbell will also be a star guest of the first online literary festival to be organised by a UK newspaper.
The series of events will be take place from March 15-19.
Local writers are invited to submit previously unpublished short stories for inclusion in an ebook, released as part of the festival, while photographs are being asked to recreate scenes from their favourite books. Details at www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liveread
